Personal

Dec 31 2022

A look back at all the amazing music released in 2022. Not ALL of it, of course, just the best of it. As decided by me.

Games

Dec 29 2022

I’ve been tinkering a bit more under the hood of my Sega Naomi cabinet. Honestly, and I’m not proud of this, I spend way more time fucking with the wiring than I do playing games.

Games

Dec 23 2022

A brief hardware post talking about arcade joysticks from Sanwa, Seimitsu and Hori.

Games

Nov 14 2022

An old re-posted review of Namco’s cool but flawed JogCon racing controller.

Games

Nov 12 2022

The sound on my R-Type LEO arcade board went a little funny, and this is the tale of how I fixed it.

Games

Nov 12 2022

I recently picked up an arcade cabinet and so I was pulling all my arcade games out of storage. I was somewhat surprised to find that some of them didn’t work right anymore, including my Neo Geo MV-1F board.

Technology

Feb 3 2022

What is the blockchain? The blockchain is a distributed ledger, a list of transactions that’s made robust by spreading it around on multiple computers. Each transaction is duplicated, stored on many computers, and verified using complicated math. That’s it. It’s great for verifying transactions. A solution looking for a problem As a distributed ledger, the […]

Personal

Feb 4 2021

Wherein I learn to draw by tracing stuff. =)

Games

Nov 11 2020

I’ve been playing a lot of racing games lately. Three games, in particular: Horizon Chase Turbo, Hotshot Racing and Inertial Drift. These games could hardly be more different in their approach, and each has something to recommend. Hotshot Racing I’ve been following the development of this since it was called Racing Apex, and I was […]

Games

Nov 3 2020

Less a game than a graphical miasma, a visual trip, a thoroughly enjoyable romp that piles a crazy amount of style onto a game that seems desperate but totally unable to please.